Sharp County record., 1887-12-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

mrrder of the babe found in the chimney
of house few days ago with its SAu'i
crushed. 1t is said she is the mother Oh
the child.
THE New York Court of Appeals mas
affirmed the Judgement of the lower court
which condemned Daniel DrscoIl 10
death for the murder of Beezy Clarity IN
the summer OF 1886.
ENGLAND has almost completed arrange
ments for identity with the new triple al
lance.
THE Fidelity Bank cases, involving the
transactions of Harper and others, were
begun in the Criminal Court at Cincinnati
on the 29th.
DIPHTHERIA is reported to be epidemic
at Montreal.
THE condition of the German Crown
Prince is reported as improving.
THE surveying party of the Nicaragua
Canal Company sailed from New York on
the 3)th.
THE French Parliament has arranged a
programme for the election of successor
to NJ. Grevy.
INFORMATION was received on the 3Jth
of the death, at Sheffield, England, OF
William Jessop, the world-famous manu-
facturer of steel.
GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania has
fixed January 26, 1SSS as the day for the
execution of David L. King, convicted in
Clarion County of the murder OF man
named Dinsmore.
AN explosion of choke damp occurred
on the 3)th in collery in Poremba, Slle-
sia, killing fifteen miners and woundlng
several others.
THE National central committee of the
Prohibition party, in session at Chlca9o,
on the Both, decided to hold the National
convention of the party in the first week
in June, 1888.
Prominent Virginians in Washington
say that there is not the slightest doubt Oh
the election of Hon. John 5. Barbour as
the next United States Senator from their
State to succeed Mr.. Riddleberger, whose
term expires March 4, 1889.
AN excursion party of American rail-
road conductors were presented to Presl'
dent Diaz in the City of Mexico, on the
Both, by Mr. T. B. Connery, charge
d'affaires of the American legation. The
President received the party in cordial
manner.
THE oil we'll at Cygnet. o., the great est
gusher in the Ohio field, which caught fre
recently, burned until the 3Oth, when the
flames were extinguished 1t is estimat-
ed that $4,000 barrels of oil were con-
sumed.
THE doorkeerership contest is really the
only fight in Washington connected WIN
the House organization aroond which
there is any doubt. Mr.. Donelson's reply
TO the charges preferred against him by
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, has fur
nished prolific topic OF discussion.
Messrs. Hurt and Nichols are still in the
race.
IT is said the Standard Oil Company
contemplate building a pipe line from
Chicago, through the Ohio and Pennsyl-
yania oil fields, to New York City.
THE police of Newark, N. j., are con-
vinced that serious trouble with the an
archistic element is only matter OF time
and will develop as soon as lasor strike
of any magnitude occurs.
TIE commanders of the different French
tions which tt are to open in theTevent
of an outbreak Ioll owing the election OF
new President.
The st. Petersburg police raided lodg-
ing. house on the 30th, in the Peski quarter,
occupied by students who were supposed
to be Nhilists. A desperate resistance
was made by the inmates Of the house,
and many persons were wounded.
CONGRESSMAN MCSHANE, OF Nebraska,
is many times millionaire, and will keep
up large establishment in Washington.
He made his money in mining enterprise
and sound real estate investm ants
Omaha and elsewhere, and has the rep
tation of being one of the solid men Of t
West.
IRISH Nationalist papers assert that t
Unionist meeting at Dublin on the mig
of the Goth was not representative ga
ering, as no one was allowed to attic
without securing ticket from the ma
agement,
TIE Iowa Soldiers Home, the bill
which passed the Legislature two ye
ago, resulting in its location at Marsh
town, after struggle between s!Xt'
leading towns of the State, was de
Gated on the 30th, and was opened l
cember / for occupants.
THE flow of gas that was struck
Gently at Princeton, Ind, at the dopthl
625 feet was cased off and the drillii
began on the 29th to secure greater foA
and after drilling ten feet deeper, at nos
of the Goth, struck new gusher at tne
depth of G35 feet.
AT Cincinnati, on the morning of the
1st, a general fire alarm was sounded,
calling the entire fire department to tho
Strobridge Lithographing COmpany's
great building. The flames devoured tie
entire building, and in less than forty
minutes the walls fell in. The loss is
total, and will probably be $2O),OOO.
JAKE SHARPE, the New York boodler,
hay been released on $4,000 bail.
A STATUE of the late President Garfield
was unvailed at Cincinnati on the 1st
with appropriate ceremonies.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt in por-
tions of England on the 1st.
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA opened the
Spanish Cortes on the 1st.
CANADIAN yachtsmen are preparing to
build yacht to compete next year for
the Americas cup.
JAMES H. MCGINDLEY, sixty-two years
old, was sentenced in the United States
Court at Clevel anG, o., on the 1st, to ten
years. Imprisonment for forging pen
sion certificates.
REPRESENTATIVE FORD, who represents
the Grand Rapids district of Michigan, is
one of the younger members of the Fiji